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title: "She’s Fair and Fause"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1789"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/shes-fair-and-fause/"
---

# She’s Fair and Fause

## Song
She’s fair and fause that causes my smart,  
I lo’ed her meikle and lang;  
She’s broken her vow, she’s broken my heart,  
And I may e’en gae hang.  
A coof cam in wi’ routh o’ gear,  
And I hae tint my dearest dear;  
But Woman is but warld’s gear,  
Sae let the bonie lass gang.

Whae’er ye be that woman love,  
To this be never blind;  
Nae ferlie ’tis tho’ fickle she prove,  
A woman has’t by kind.  
O Woman lovely, Woman fair!  
An angel form’s faun to thy share,  
’Twad been o’er meikle to gi’en thee mair—  
I mean an angel mind.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/shes-fair-and-fause/